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begripe

verb
/bɪˈɡɹaɪp/

Etymology

From Middle English begripen, bigripen, from Old English begrīpan (“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + gripe.

  1. inherited from *bigrīpan✻
  2. inherited from begrīpan
  3. inherited from begripen

Definitions

  1. To lay hold of

    To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp.

    • He, with his middle feet, begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek.
    • And as for this sword there shall never man begripe it at the handle but one, but he shall pass all other. In the name of God, said Percivale, I shall essay to handle it. So he set his hand to the sword, but he might not begripe it.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA